Behind the walled wall stretching on the shore, on a watchtower, Zhang Shijie, who was also a Taoist priest and Gu Dali, was wearing heavy armor and trying his best to look at the northwest direction with a monocular. The copper shell of the telescope was about to be deformed by his grip.

Although the twenty warships led by Chen Dexing were unscathed, they did not stop the pace of the Beiyu's advance by land and water! Although the Mongolian naval serial ships on the river were frequently hit by bullets and caught fire, not many of them capsized, and those that did not capsize continued to advance. And more chain boats, following behind these burning ships, slowly approached, covering the entire river.

On land, the situation is even more critical. There were too many Mongolian infantry troops on the Yangtze River to count, and the fluttering military flags almost obscured the sky. Moreover, this Mongol army also had hair stones, and they marched together with large and small stone machines. The goal of the march is the small Nantuochang Dazhai on the edge of the Yangtze River! The Mongolian cavalry at the forefront had already spread out outside the Dazhai in Nantuochang and began to seize the highest points everywhere.

Obviously, this is another preparation for the onslaught on the Nantuochang camp!

Zhang Shijie was about to crush the telescope in his hand, but he was at a loss, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

If he had been placed on the battlefields of Jinghu and Jingxi, which he was familiar with, and saw so many Tartar soldiers coming, he would have withdrawn with his brothers a long time ago. This is not an escape from the battle, fighting a war is to advance when it is time to advance, to abide by the rules, and to retreat when it is time to retreat. Where is the reason to stick to one place and be beaten? But this is Sichuan, which is unfamiliar with life! Except for the Yangtze River, Zhang Shijie doesn't know where to retreat? Instead, retreat along the river. The Thunderbolt Navy's warships must help. However, Daoist Ren and Gu Dali of the Thunderbolt Water Army did not agree to retreat at all! Looking at the approaching army of Tartars, Zhang Shijie was annoyed in his heart!

I shouldn't have been tricked by Chen Dexing to Nantuochang!

At this time, the Tiger Tiger, the flagship of the Thunderbolt Naval Army, suddenly raised a string of colorful flags. Zhang Shijie didn't know what that meant. This thunderbolt army is really strange to say, it is obviously the army of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is incompatible with the Song army in all aspects, and even the most basic establishment and battle array scheduling orders are different. Those military attachés who were transferred to the Perak Navy from elsewhere either put down their positions and went to the military academy to learn the Perak Army, or they could only stay at home and receive a salary - because they had no way to command the troops. They don't understand their orders!

At this time, the fleet of the Thunderbolt Navy on the river began to change formations again, first turning to the left collectively, changing from a horizontal formation to a column. Then it turned to the north (the Yangtze River formed a zigzag loop in the area of Nantuochang), and charged the right flank of the Mongol naval army with a double column formation!

Zhang Shijie shook his head slightly, and muttered to himself: "It's actually a charge!" With 5,000 people to rush 100,000 tartars, this Chen Dexing is really brave......"

Some of his cronies and generals also noticed the changes on the river. There was a lot of talking.

"This Chen Dexing is not crazy. Only twenty boats dare to rush like this! ”

"Suffered, suffered, if the navy's warships are gone, how can we retreat downstream?"

"This battle is really inexplicable!"

"Commander, let's get out quickly, ask them for a few cars and boats, if they don't give ......"

Zhang Shijie gritted his teeth and shouted: "What do you say? We're at risk. There is still life to fight, and I want to go...... Where can I go? Go to Fengdu? There are more than 4,000 people here. There are also hair stones, thunder, when we arrive in Fengdu, there are 1,500 of us, there is no hair stone, no thunder, can we still fight? ”

Not far from Zhang Shijie, behind the wall, the remaining soldiers and horses of the Perak Navy Army are in a team, about 2,800 people. They have all been put on armor, and all of them are the best defensive step armor. Their armament was also different from that of the ordinary Song army, with only divine arm crossbows and spears, and no bows and arrows and ring-headed knives. In front of the queue, there were thirty-six stone machines, all towed by ox carts.

Although the Thunderbolt Navy carries the word "water", it is not bad at land warfare. In fact, Chen Dexing's requirement for this army is to be universal on land and water. Moreover, according to the characteristics of the stone and the thunder, the corresponding tactics were formulated.

First of all, the task of long-distance attack was handed over to the stone machine, and the distance between 200 and 50 steps in front of the battle was all taken care of by the stone machine. To this end, the stone generator was redesigned, and the simplest and most effective stone generator drill code was developed, which no longer regarded measurement as the main method, but focused on test firing, and at the same time adjusted the range with the number of thunderbolts thrown at a time. In fact, it sacrifices precision to simplify operation, and is suitable for large-area attacks. At the same time, Chen Dexing also equipped each artillery team of the Perak Navy with three-bow bed crossbows and heavenly thunder arrows, which are really sharp weapons used for long-range precision strikes, attacking enemy artillery positions, and sniping enemy commanders rely on them. However, the combination of the three-bow bed crossbow and the heavenly thunder arrow is now a secret weapon, and no one is allowed to use it without Chen Dexing's order! This thing, but I want to keep it for Meng Geda Khan to try.

Secondly, the crossbow has become a weapon for shooting at close range, and it no longer pursues the continuity of firepower, but adopts the method of three or two rows of salvos, using the method of increasing the density of fire to inflict one-time heavy damage on the enemy. At the same time, the God Arm Crossbowman is equipped with a small sky thunder similar to a long-handled grenade. Used to throw when two sides are in battle.

Finally, melee combat has been reduced to a battle of spears - of course, behind the pikemen there are crossbowmen throwing grenades, and stone-hairers dropping thunderbolts to bombard the opposing archers.

Daoist Ren and Gu Dali both stood at the front of the team with their helmets on, and orders were conveyed one after another. The 2,800 armor soldiers immediately divided into several teams, either to hold the wall, or to defend the water wall, or to pull the stone machine into the position. was actually in order, facing 100,000 Tartars, without fear, shouting slogans while mobilizing.

"Kill the Tartars, go to heaven!"

……

"What are those Southern Barbarians shouting?"

The Great Khan of Mongolia rode a horse from the Western Regions, rode forward under the escort of the cowardly Xue warriors, and left the camp in Nantuochang until he heard the earth-shaking slogan.

"Great Khan, these southern barbarians are shouting 'Kill the Tartars, go to heaven'."

Liu Heima, the governor of Wanhu who followed the Mongol Great Khan, was a Han Chinese, so he could naturally understand the slogans of the Perak Navy.

"What? Heaven's Court? Meng Ge was stunned. What Heavenly Court? Is it Immortality? ”

"Of course not, the Immortal Heaven is the Heaven of the Mongolian warriors, where are those Southern Barbarians qualified to go up? If they die, they will have to go to the underworld! ”

"Oh," the Great Khan turned back and asked an old man dressed in Taoist costumes, "Qinghe Zhenren, is that so?" ”

This old Taoist priest turned out to be Yin Zhiping, one of the two great masters who followed the Mongolian Great Khan, as the Taoist priest said (Yin Zhiping did not live so long in history, but let him prolong his life in the novel), the real person in charge of the Quanzhen Sect. In Jin Yong's novels, this Quanzhen Sect seems to be an anti-Mongolian and Song sect, but in real history, it is a traitor sect that follows the Mongol rulers. In the era of Qiu Chuji, it was once quite used by the Mongols, and he was entrusted with the position of the religious leader of the Han region. However, by the time of Yin Zhiping's generation, the status of the Quanzhen Sect in the northern region had declined, and now it was the great lama of the Tibetan Tantric sect, His Holiness Phagsipa, who was heavily used by the Great Khan.

The 25-year-old lama was a popular cult among his brothers, Möngke and Kublai Khan, and last year he defeated Yin Zhiping of the Quanzhen Sect at a Buddhist debate in Shangdu, thus establishing Tibetan Buddhism as the state religion of the Mongol Empire and himself attaining the status of the Mongol state teacher. Now he was following Meng Ge Da Khan, and when he heard Meng Ge's question, he didn't wait for Yin Zhiping to answer, so he laughed and interjected.

"Heaven is not in the sky, but in the hearts of people."

"People's hearts?" Meng Ge also ignored Yin Zhiping, an old Taoist priest, and asked Ba Si Pa directly, "Master, what do you mean ......?"

"This is an evil method that deceives people's hearts." The grand lama who was born with a treasure and a solemn appearance said with a smile, "The Southern Barbarians ruled the army with evil law, but they were poor, and the Great Khan will definitely win a big victory this time, and set foot in the south of the Yangtze River, and the little monk congratulates the Great Khan." ”

Riding on a donkey, Yin Zhiping, who looked a little similar to Zhang Guolao in the painting, stroked his gray beard and just snorted softly.

"Real person, do you have something to say?" Meng Ge is very disdainful of the Quanzhen Sect, of course, not because their Quanzhen swordsmanship is useless, but the teachings of Taoism are not as good as Buddhism - Taoism alchemy pill cultivates longevity, while Buddhism cultivates cause and effect in the afterlife. Suffering in this life is because of the sins done in the previous life, and you can only accept it in the opposite way, so that you will have a chance to be rewarded in the next life...... This is easier to paralyze the Han people in the north than the Taoist one.

"Great Khan, as far as Poor Dao knows, the Southern Dynasty has recently raised a great Ming Temple, preaching what national righteousness, and also said that the warriors of the Great Mongolia are demons, claiming that after fighting with the Mongolian warriors, they can go to the heavenly court to rank the immortal class, and there are some believers in the two Huai armies. This killing of Tartars, going to heaven is the slogan of the Great Ming Temple. ”

Meng Ge just sneered, not taking it seriously. He had encountered this kind of use of religion to oppose Great Mongolia during his expedition to the west, but what was the result? Haven't they all been flattened by the Great Mongolia? There was also a True God Sect in the Western Regions that raised assassins, the Ismaili Sect, and in the end, wasn't it also flattened by the Great Mongols? Even their leader, the old man of the mountain, Hassan. Sabah himself was trampled to the pulp by the horse's hooves, and the entire sect was slaughtered.

This southern barbarian is now also learning from this Ismaili faction, and the fate of the future will not be the same as being trampled by the iron cavalry of the Great Mongolia? What kind of Great Ming Temple, slaughter it cleanly, it's a big deal to slaughter more, and kill all the Taoist priests of the Southern Dynasty! (To be continued......)